In the 2024 chapter of Major League Baseball's (MLB's) inter-league rivalry, National League (NL) teams defeated their American League (AL) rivals 373 wins to 323 (53.6%-46.4%) after including the World Series (WS) and All-Star matches.
2024 was the NL's 5th best year in 27 years of regular season inter-league play starting in 1997.
The NL defeated even the once-dominant AL East 124-111 (52.8%). AL East teams had won 56.6% of inter-league games from 2020 through 2023.
The AL had won 16 of the previous 20 inter-league seasons with All-Star and World Series matches included in the counts. After 14 consecutive AL triumphs from 2004 through 2017, the NL has now won the inter-league contest for 5 of 7 seasons starting with 2018.
The "brain gap" between AL and NL team managements shrank over the years thanks to the brain drain of smarty-pants and smarty-skirt executives who started with AL squads before crossing over to manage NL teams.
The AL's only remaining claim to superiority is winning 10 of the past 11 All-Star contests, 22 of the last 26 to reach a decision and 28 of 35.
The NL representative Dodgers were rightly favoured to take the World Series.
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